About

WebFiction is more than a fad. It’s more than the last resort for the unemployed, can’t-get-a-break, lying-drunk-under-a-pile-of-unpublished-manuscripts writer.

WebFiction is a literary movement in its own right. And it’s a quirky and diverse subculture, that’s really just a hell of a lot of fun.

Cheapass Fiction is a site dedicated to exploring, analyzing and encouraging the free and dirt-cheap fiction available on the web and the cultural movement it expresses.

Stories and novels on the internet that aren’t published through recognized commercial companies are often seen as cheap and worthless. WebFiction isn’t even allowed in the gutter of the literary scene. It’s the bad neighborhood down the street that the gutter runs into.
Well, we happen to like the neighborhood. We say “Hell yeah!” to cheap fiction. We say it may not be worth $14.99 or $9.99 or even $5.99, but entertainment doesn’t need to have a price tag. And when it does, we’re likely to pass it by and go hang out on the porch steps of our crappy neighborhood for kicks.

About Me

Hi.

I’m Aelius.

In the world outside of 1s and 0s, I’m… well, it’s not important. I don’t spend much time there anyway. There, I’m human. Female of my species. 20 something. Easily frightened by things with sharp beaks, things with big teeth, and Australia.

Here, I’m a writer.

I write Free–with–a–capital–Ffiction. Public Domain/CC0/Do-whatever-the-hell-you-want-with-it fiction, because… fuck copyright. Why? My entire life I dreamed about telling people stories. I did not dream about telling people stories that they could never tell to anyone else ever because they didn’t have the right.

Searches for The Ultimate E-Book Library tend to point here. This is not because I run TUEBL. This is not because I have anything technical or official to do with TUEBL. I’m just a blogger. And I’m one of the few covering TUEBL news. I fucking love libraries, and if standing in as the totally-official-not-really blogger of TUEBL news is the best way that I can help out our library, then that’s what I’ll do.

24 Responses to “About”

I love fanfic too, but I don’t include it as webfiction just because it’s already got its own thing. Technically, “web” “fiction” is ANY fiction published on the web. But as a movement, I believe what is generally called “webfiction” is a distinct movement/subculture of people creating original fiction that just happens to be free on the internet.

Hey, thanks for stopping over!
I am definitely looking forward to finishing the book, and probably starting on the others. I think the length is probably just an issue for me because I have been incredibly busy lately. But I am definitely liking the story!

I found the email subscribe at the bottom but you might want to throw in a RSS subscribe button too. I added you in my reader by copy pasting your url into my reader, but life is so much easier with a button.

Thanks so much for subscribing to my blog! I hope I can entertain you as much as web fiction! I will tell you, some of the best ideas, the best written stories were one’s I’ve read online that were free and non-published in the traditional way. Of course you have to sift through the not-so-good and the downright crap to get to it, but the amazing stuff is out there! It’s like singing….a lot of people like to do it and have every right to…..in their shower or in the privacy of their own home. Not everyone is meant to perform that’s just the way it is. You can’t be good at everything, you can just work to excel at what you are good at!

Sometimes I think sifting through it all is the fun part. Then when you come across something good it’s all the more rewarding. On the web, it’s not all just handed to you you have to go out and search for it. And IMHO the best part is finding the hidden gems that almost no one has seen. I feel so privileged to be able to read so many people’s work.

And I love what I’ve read on your blog, so far and I hope to hear more! I’m a traveler too and I love hearing others’ stories.

Yeah, that sucks TUEBL doesn’t control what goes up, and I know they WISH they could have all the books people want. But I also know there have been some angry authors trying to make them institute even MORE controls on what books are available (Even though TUEBL has a tighter DMCA policy that YouTube or Google!) I don’t know what’s going on behind the scenes, but it’s possible the collection is being affected by this.
(Also sorry for the late reply! Been away…)